Isaac Schlecht
Experienced Investor & Innovator
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations
2025 - Current
Akool provides personalized visual marketing products powered by cutting-edge Gen AI and trusted by major brands including Coca Cola, Amazon, General Mills, and McDonalds.
Member | Angel Investor
2021
Brown Angel Group is a global network of 900+ angel investors who are leveraging capital, connections, and community to support startups founded by Brown University alumni. We invest in companies at any stage in the startup lifecycle. Our investments to date have been in wide-ranging industries including computer vision, robotics, CPG, digital health, computational biology, therapeutics, HR tech, ed tech, e-commerce, sports media, and marketplaces.
Investor & Analyst
2024 - 2025
Sourcing, investing, and consulting for outstanding venture companies. Sectors include B2B AI, legal tech, healthcare, and energy storage. Clients include venture capital and professional services firms, multinational banks and insurance companies, angel groups, and family offices.
Partner
2023 - 2023
Castor Ventures is a private venture fund for MIT alumni and friends of the community to access high-quality, diversified venture portfolios in early to growth-stage companies, many with a MIT alumni connection. Our investors own a portfolio of ~20-30 venture investments diversified by stage, sector, and geography. The fund co-invests alongside other established venture firms. Castor Ventures is part of the Alumni Ventures (AV) family of venture funds. AV is a network-powered venture capital firm that provides accredited investors with a smart, simple way to own professionally managed venture portfolios. We are consistently recognized by Pitchbook as one of the most active venture investors in the world. We have a rapidly growing portfolio of over 800+ companies and have raised over $800M in capital from our investors. Our community boasts 600,000+ alumni, entrepreneurs, and subscribers, and we typically co-invest alongside other established venture firms.
Senior Principal
2021 - 2023
Principal
2020 - 2021
Senior Associate
2019 - 2019
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.
Founder, CEO
2017 - 2019
Design and development of digital economic simulation game, with collaborators at MIT and worldwide
Buttonwood Gaming is a start-up game design company developing a digital simulation where the player can navigate 300+ years of history.
MBA Candidate
2017 - 2019
Co-President of 2018 MIT Venture Capital & Innovation Conference; VP of Content for 2018 MIT Investment Conference; active in Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, Technology Club, and Sloan Coders Club
MBA Associate
2018 - 2019
Provided analytic support for transactions, due diligence, and market research in growth-equity and venture capital across the global internet, technology, and consumer sectors
Senior Analyst, Business and Research
2014 - 2017
Research, deal sourcing, portfolio management, valuation, and investor relations at growth equity venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled services (SaaS, clean tech / distributed solar, fintech, internet & communications infrastructure, business services, and online media)
Catalyst Investors makes growth equity investments in high-growth, lower middle market companies.
Associate
2013 - 2014
Investment analysis, marketing, research, and new product development at investment management firm specializing in fixed income and currencies
Summer Analyst
2011 - 2011
Investment analysis, deal sourcing, and portfolio monitoring at lower-middle-market private equity firm